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Program to stream .vob ?
On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:04:38 -0400, Flasherly wrote:
| On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:19:34 -0400, Larc | wrote: | | I was going to recommend the same thing. Potplayer will definitely stream .VOB | files. 32 and 64 bit versions available. Free! Beats VLC hands down, IMO. | | https://potplayer.daum.net/ | | Larc | | Give SMPlayer a shot if you haven't. It has a nice software-driven | GAMMA adjustment in the video EQ section. Perhaps the better render | of the two, although klunkier IMO defining/reassigning hotkeys in | preferences. (Also may error out when first started -- a related | error that's easy to find in preferences and, once | selected/deselected, a program restart and it's fixed.) I'll check it out. But I use Potplayer much more for audio than video. Most of my computer video is from YouTube and Amazon Prime. Firefox handles that. | I'm back to running D-Sub (15pin VGA) after using an 15-pin adapter to | DVI-D, the last which I like somewhat better, except for the adapter | is a pain. Seems overall there's a more natural contrast to DVI-D, | blacks and saturation less easily affected by a tendency for | overwhelming white wash-outs. Also have an HDMI cable on the way, | shipping in. My first time up with HDMI to see how that turns out. I like HDMI and DisplayPort connections and find them generally better than DVI. Also there are no screws to contend with. Currently using DisplayPort on my main system. Interesting that monitors are getting away from DVI connections. Many don't even have them now. Larc |
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Program to stream .vob ?
Paul wrote:
pheasant16 wrote: Thanks for the advice. Just to be su I want to stream this to the Roku box. I can watch .vob on the computer now, just want to send it to the tv. Is there a channel I need to add to Roku once I install the POTplayer? https://web.archive.org/web/20150602...annel-support- "What media file types does the Roku Media Player channel support? The Roku Media Player channel enables you to play back personal video, music and photo files from a DLNA server on your local network (or a USB drive attached to a USB equipped Roku). Video — MKV (H.264) --- Container (Codec inside container) MP4 (H.264) MOV (H.264), WMV (VC-1, firmware 3.1 only) Music — AAC MP3 WMA FLAC (firmware 5.3 and later), WAV (firmware 5.3 and later) Photo — JPG, PNG, GIF (non-animated) " This allows your Windows PC to stream content to the Roku. Since Windows has a DLNA compliant server. What the Windows box is going to lack, is flavorful transcoding. Windows has its own ecosystem, and to avoid licensing fees associated with certain codecs, it cannot transcode stuff from outside its own ecosystem. To Bill Gates "all what you need is WMV", which of course is not true. https://www.howtogeek.com/215400/how...-media-server/ The VOB file is MPEG2. The container type isn't too important, but there is a need to convert the VOB file to H.264 codec. There are third party streaming servers you could use without the Windows one enabled. Serviio might be an example. Some of those will do the transcode for you. But, you need horsepower to do that. And you don't really want to transcode in real time, unless the transcoder is "faster than real time" while using 100% of a CPU core say. Transcoding before the fact, and storing movie.mkv on the PC, will allow streaming to occur as just a network delivery issue, and not a compute issue on the source end. https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/art...nscoding-Media "Mobile devices are still in their infancy and are not nearly as powerful or flexible as a desktop PC. They have special requirements when it comes to playing back media. Ideally, the media should be sent in: * The ideal resolution * The right media encoding (H.264, etc.) * A compatible file container The Server acts as a Universal Translator. " So that's the transcoding concept. If you provide the file as movie.mk4 (H.264 codec) then Plex would not need to transcode. ******* In addition to "pulling" content from the PC, you can "cast" to the Roku. Which is "pushing" from a computing device. Maybe an Android device could "cast" to it. I'm only mentioning this possibility for the sake of completeness, since casting can have its own set of problems. And you always want to work on problems, ones you can comprehend. https://www.howtogeek.com/214785/how...-on-your-roku/ Paul Thanks Paul. Your very thorough explanation confirmed what I suspected I'd need to do all along. PlayOn has changed something in the past 3 years, and for someone of my limited computer ability, using something like Handbrake to convert the vob to mp4 is the least taxing thing for me to figure out. Most of my videos are old classics from the 40's and 50's, so quality isn't a big issue anyway. Shoot going from 4-5GB to 1MB file size means I won't even need any additional storage space. Did add a USB 3 card (XP only finds it about every other boot) LOL so if I get ambitious and want to convert the library can pick up and small external drive and make it portable. |
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